How was Germany Formed?
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- ♦How was Germany formed?
During medieval times, the lands of Germany were scattered in hundreds of pieces.
This so-called empire changed its shape multiple times and took part in external and internal military conflicts. One of the entities, Prussia, grew in the next centuries, through diplomacy, political unions and wars. By the end of the 18th century becoming, one of the most powerful German kingdoms.
During the Napoleonic Wars what was left of the Holy Roman Empire, was dismantled, and after the Peace of Vienna, Prussia expanded and became part of a new confederation of German states.
The next years represented revolutions across Europe. The idea of removing the old political structures and creation of new nation-states was envisioned. All across the German confederation many started to think about a single German Nation… but not many wanted to give up power so fast.
The German Unification will happen through a series of wars, carefully planned and executed by Prussia… Stick with us until the end…
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As a native of Holstein, I think 99% of people here have no idea we were briefly ruled by Austria 160 years ago. It's a minor detail that disappears in the bigger confusing picture.
Do you think people know that Hannover was ruled by Britain 180 years ago?
@@SimonDman other way around or not`?
@@mrhonigkuchen2649 well it ended in 1837 because of Victoria's accession, as Semi-Salic law prevented a woman to rule Hanover. So how would it be the other way around?
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@@SimonDmanhow can you say they were ruled by Britain when the house that ruled was called house of Hannover 😂 if anything it would be the other way around lol. What you mean if that they were both under the same king.
Narration suggestion: when mentioning dates, drop the year in there now and then. Doing so helps anchor events in the listener’s mind. A long series of “15 May, then 20 October, then 13 November, then 17 December”, etc., causes the listener to lose track of the year. The years are more important anyway.
Hell ya. I don't recall year being mentioned at all cept at the very start. I have no idea what year it is when vid concludes. 1880's ? If not .. when?
Interesting fact that the place where Prussia was established is not part of Germany now
Nor back then
@Siegbert85 it was. It was a region called east Prussia
@@CCrux-yt Back during HRE times, I meant.
Now it's in firm Russian hands: Königsberg = Kaliningrad.
@@ShahobiddinHikmatov Ironically, Prussia gets its name from the Pruzen, a Slavic people who inhabited the area where East Prussia used to be, and that region was handed over to Poland after the end of WW2 because of Germany's defeat, and the borders of both Poland and the Soviet Union were shifted westward as a result of the negotiations that took place between the Soviets and the Western Allies, taking more land away from Germany.
Why is German history so darn interesting? 😅
It’s so unique
@@sunandsteel777 fr
Geograficly: it's the Center of europe
Ethnicly: it's a wide Mix of europeans with an intense allegiance to their German heritage
Historical: germans are involved in the history of a lot of countrys all over the World (France, Russia, Britan, Spain, Greec, Brazil, Argentinia, USA eg)
U know why 😌....
Honestly every country has a unique history. It's just how it was presented to others
Well when a mummy Germany and a daddy Germany love each other very much...
oversimplified!!
They 'adopt' a Polish kid?
They invade France.
Anschluss, ja?
@@josepharte Austria was also adopted.
Austrian painter after 75 years lose half of Prussia to Poland
Prussias most important city is now part of Russia
@@aAverageFanso sad
Oh him again, lol
@@aAverageFan But Russian authorities are now trying to rebuild the historical parts of Königsberg that were either destroyed during the war or after and replaced with Soviet/Marxist concrete coffins etc.
@@victorsamsung2921 Better still,how about handing it back to it's rightful owners.....
Germany's history from the HRE to the German Empire and now the Federal Republic of Germany is quite interesting on the formation of one of the most influencial nations.
I think you missed one there bud
dont forget the Church.
@@dinofangzz Herrn Schicklgruber? :)
@@dinofangzz the Weimar Republic ofc
@@Mr.IncrediblisNaz
Should have talked about the Napoleonic Wars and the German mediatisation instead. Napoleon's France took German lands up to the Rhine, and the Imperial crown had to compensate remaining nobles by effectively consolidating the innumerable tiny independent states into the larger blocs we see at the start of the Victorian age. That's when all the bishoprics, small counties and free states that you see in medieval maps disappeared, and is far less talked about than Bismarck's unification.
This channel is anglo so it will always be biased and frustrated towards france
@@smal750 The channel is from Rumania (atleast the channel information location shows)
@@Janoip
Its not
True, Napoleon was more important for German unification, than Bismarck was. Even wasn't Napoleons intention, the Code Civil also played a huge role as a role model for creating the modern German law system, that was drafted under Bismarck
@@tobiasharstel7941 Napoleon was above all an external threat, the dead and his rule drove the small states together to free themselves from the occupation & suppression.
Napoleon's military conquests and the associated occupations led to significant burdens for the affected areas. Especially after the Battle of Nations near Leipzig in 1813, an intense hatred of Napoleon and the French developed, which dominated the German view of France throughout the 19th century. His military campaigns and harsh occupation policies resulted in considerable losses and suffering in the occupied territories, contributing to his perception as a brutal ruler.
But yes also in part as Reformer
Interesting note, the UK was on Denmark's side while Hanover on the German Confederation's side. Eleven years prior the two kingdoms of Hanover and UK were ruled by the same person. Hooray for feudalism.
too funny
And Queen Victoria picked the new Prince of Hanover in time for the First World War (which put an English Duke on the German side).
(Look up the Dukedom of Albany).
@@allangibson8494I believe that Edward, the Duke of Albany, was chosen by Victoria to become the Prince of Coburg, not Hanover. Her nearest male relative and his descendants became the rulers of Hanover upon her accession to the throne in 1837. Coburg was where her consort, Prince Albert, was from, and she wanted to continue his memory by selecting Coburg's ruler. When Edward became the Prince of Coburg, he had to give his allegiance to the Kaiser upon doing so, and give his support to Germany during WWI. When Hitler took over in 1933, Edward became a member of the Nazi Party, and he wound up doing Hitler's bidding. As a result of all this activity, he was ostracized by the members of the British Royal family, and would never be able to step onto British soil again. He had to watch Queen Elizabeth's coronation on film from afar in Coburg. To this day, no member of the Royal family has made a visit to Coburg.
@@allangibson8494 And as an addendum to what I mentioned before, since the Kaiser was also a grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, that made Edward and the Kaiser cousins to one another with one royal cousin merely giving allegiance to another royal cousin in another country and, therefore, keeping allegiance within the family as it were.
@@douglasschliewen4302 Edward was stripped of his British titles in 1917.
So did all this happen 1 year? Over a period of 10 years? 50 years? What?? When were they officially a German empire?? You need to mention dates of these events, or at least years.
1812 disbanding HRE, 1867 north german confederation, 1871 German empire
@@shadowfox7896 Right on! Unsung heroes exist!
@@shadowfox7896 The Holy Roman Empire ended in August 1806 when Francis II. laid down the imperial crown (without consent from the other princes and electors) because he feared the entire HRE, and by extension his Habsburg core domains, could fall into Napoleon's hands. De facto the Empire was already finished a month earlier when a number of German states joined Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine, which also resulted in the elevation of Bavaria and Württemberg to kingdoms.
Prussia was kinda a precursor to Germany. It's far more complicated than that but even up to WW1 the English and French called them Prussians and they had a very similar flag
The German empire formed during /after the Franco Prussian war(when Prussia and its allies took Paris) that’s why there is the famous painting with all the German leaders in Paris.
"The Holy Roman Empire could neither be considered 'holy', nor 'Roman', nor an 'empire'."
- Voltaire, 1756
reddit tier comment
When I grew up in the 1960's in peaceful and wealthy Southern Germany nothing could be seen of anything that had happened earlier except the ruins of a 1000-year old castle...
Would it be false to say, Southern Germany STILL is peaceful and wealthy ?
(notwithstanding the Divine Law that earlier everything was better, especially sex :) )
@@jbruck6874If nothing else Southern Germany looked much more beautiful in the 60s
@@sebe2255 maybe, just maybe *anything* looks better through the eyes of youth…? ;)
So basically “Germany” was in nonstop war for almost a 100 years up until the end of WWII….. got it
Basically Germany manifested from all the infighting of the Holy Roman Empire.
those 100 years were the most peaceful in european history up until that point
@@berndlauert8179 , riiiigghhhttt….. Because the pissed off frenchman was gone ? I guess you forgot about a little European skirmish known as WWI …
@@mikevader1988 WW1 was not fought on German soil.
@@berndlauert8179 umm you said “European “ not German… but I’m sure German soil is pretty boss tho
I really like your documentaries, but for the love of god could you pronounce Schleswig as Schleswig and not Schiiiswig.
Yep, had to stop listening. That was painful.
German history is so interesting because it was formed by Blood and Steel
you mean backstabbing treachory and the murder of thousands all,for impereal power sad real,one mans delusions still have repercusions
at leat the empire from 1871.
@@LamiNalchor Actually goes as far nack as the Teutonic knights and the formation of the Duchy of Prussia
@@johnmorales6281 This is one more example. There are no other examples out of the ordinary. The Teutonic knights ultimately were utterly defeated and ruled by Poland and later Poland-Lithuania. So, violence yes, but not even a success.
@@LamiNalchor True but remember the first ruler of the Duchy of Prussia was the head of the order when he was in power
Worthwhile mentioning that when Germany was so fractured particularly in the Middle Ages it was actually far easier for the emperor to rule over it since there was no strong and united opposition to this power.
The presentation was absolutely fascinating to watch, the graphics were great, the narration was very clear. Understandable, I really enjoyed it, thank you.
Clear? What are you talking about?!
The presentation started in the middle ages, jumped to the XIX century, back to XV, then re-back to XIX!
I originally rewinded the video but then just let it go to the end.
All of this history was nothing but pure idiocy. But it helps me a lot knowing that Europeans are just as screwed up as Americans, despite the woke always pounding how better Europe is. This video is just a small sample of reality, and it lurks beneath the smooth European appearance.
So sad to see those nations didn't even exist in its current shape when football was invented, and now England can't beat any of them...
Good Video. I want to note: during the first Schleswig -Holstein war Sweden and Norway (then the united kingdom of Sweden and Norway) fought to a degree on the side of Denmark. That said, 90% of the troops involved in the fighting were Danish, but the combo of some troops and supply support was probably part of why Denmark won the first conflict. After WW1 Denmark given an offer by the victorious allies to take back Schleswig, but instead only took back the Northern half of Schleswig, the part that had a Danish majority, and this is the border between Denmark and Germany to this day.
Additionally, the exact border was confirmed through plebiscites in the border municipalities, so even the fucking Nazis did not dare alter the border one centimeter. Currently, the Danish minority party SSW holds two seats in the German Bundestag.
When people in the US try to imply that European is so much more cultured/diplomatic/peaceful than the US, I just refer them to the huge list of wars and conflicts.
Man, butchered the pronunciations so bad. 🤣🤣🤣
germany before ww1 is peak germany
Germany is a land made of steel and blood. That's means it grows and shrinks and grows and so on.
@@Itsme-xf7sxit has mostly just shrunk though
I appreciate how this documentary includes the voices of historians and archaeologists. It adds depth to the narrative and highlights ongoing discoveries.
The constantly wrong pronounciation of "Schleswig" gets a bit irritating, though (given that one third of the video is about it and it's said very, very often in the video. Mind you, I'm not expecting perfect german from an Engish speaker, but it's a bit like if instead of "Brunswick", people would say "Brinswuck" all the effing time. He basically said "Schlisweg" instead of Schleswig". Yes, I know, it's a more or less common mistake of English speakers, based on their peculiar pronounciation of "i" and "e", but neverthelass quite annoying, because they are all so completely unaware of the fact that these two letters are pronounced in a different way - not only in German, but in most other (European) languages as well (French, Italian, Spanish - just to name a few).
Every language pronounces words from others in their own phonetics it's not an English problem it's a language barrier issue. It's not a one-way street although since this is history done on Germany it would make sense for clearer pronunciation but expecting every non native to learn pronunciations is a bit much considering not every has the same goal in said language.
I was in Paris for the Olympics. I visited the Arc de Triomphe. I found the entire monument a bit grotesque. A celebration of everything Napoleon, who channeled the energy of the Revolution into the Grande Armee that rampaged across, wait for it! Germany! A bunch of city-states, duchies, and farms minding their own business. With this aggression, and with Nappy III's aggression, the Germans naturally decided they better unify into one nation and Army up.
Yes, Germany under the Kaiser Reich in WW1 and under Hitler in WW2 was a monster. But who was the Victor Frankenstein who created this monster?
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Now we need an equal video on Italian Unification so that non-Italians can know why Italy joined this war (known in Italy as the Third Independence War).
If I were German I’d be pissed losing the Prussian lands.
My grandmother would probably agree. My family lost a lot.
They lost all of Poland in 1945 lol
Hey hey hey don't give them ideas
Well, a certain ex-corporal, wannabe painter with a moustache was
No problem, we still have that wonderfull dish of Königsberger Klopse. That is enough.
After watching this ancient history documentary, I'm convinced I was an ancient historian in a past life… or maybe just a really curious cat
Finally! I havent had a new video on my feed for 8 hrs now 😅
How many subscriptions you have?
@@blackholedividedbyzero about 220-230
Nice video.
What's going on with Holland's geography? There's a landmass across the Southern Sea that never existed... There's a dam now (still called a 'dijk' in Dutch as it was intented for poldering), but that was built in the late 1920s.
That is what made me doubt the whole map
The real answer is that no one cares about portraying the changes in the Dutch coastline over centuries of video content
@@sebe2255 most history channels do feature the correct coastline, so I would suspect you're venting your contrarian personality.
@@GBOAC There are literally always Dutch people whinging about a random polder either being absent or being present when it shouldn’t be.
And most of the time the coastline is not correct in these videos because it changed a lot over the hundreds of years that the video covers and no one can be bothered to reflect that when the video isn’t about it
@@sebe2255 If you can’t tolerate feedback from other viewers, then you should maybe stay out of the comment section. As giving feedback that might aggravate people is one thing, it still relates to the content. You then starting an argument about the fact you can’t live with it is not related to the content at all. You’re basically whining about others supposedly whining.
13:00 Radetzky March is playing which honors a Austrian field marshal, what a great detail!
"Let me tell you about German history" *proceeds to skip 2,000 years*
The Holy Roman Empire and the area was considered Germany since Roman time and before that the native tribes understood themselves as of one people.
Napoleon: You're welcome, Germans.
It's wild to think that Germany was united by the time America had already had it's centennial
And the Kingdom of England was only formed almost a century after the medieval Kingdom of Germany
@@berndlauert8179England predates Germany though, because East Frankia and Germany aren’t actually the same thing.
And English identity is older than a German identity by centuries
@@sebe2255 East Frankia and Germany are the exact same thing referred to by different names in different eras. German identity already existed before the Roman Empire was taken over by Germanics.
Germany taking Alsace (and some of Lorraine) from 1871 to the end of WW1 would have been worth a mention. And Schleswig ain't Schleeswig.
Otherwise, very interesting. It's a complicated history, and your explanation was helpful.
@@drychaf As far as Alsace and Lorraine are concerned, that was a bone of contention between France and the Germans going back to the Thirty Year's War during the 17th century when France decided to seize German territory for themselves. Both Alsace and Lorraine had been German kingdoms up to that point. After France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, the Germans then decided to incorporate both into Germany being that they were populated by ethnic Germans, and had been German states before the Thirty Year's War. And just as an incidental mention, Schleswig in Danish is spelled Slesvig, and also as an incidental mention, Schleswig and Holstein were both seized by Denmark during the Thirty Year's War as well when King Christian IV decided to take a chunk of German territory. So, the seizure of Alsace and Lorraine and the taking of both Schleswig and Holstein had their origins during the Thirty Year's War and remained bones of contention between the Germans, France and Denmark until the second half of the 19th century when Prussia and Austria went to war with Denmark in 1864, and the Danes ceded Schleswig and Holstein to both countries upon their loss during that war(the Austrians lost their control over Holstein when they lost the Austro-Prussian War in 1866), and as mentioned previously, Alsace and Lorraine were incorporated into Germany after German unification occurred and upon France losing the Franco-Prussian War in 1871. Sweden also took advantage of the circumstance during the Thirty Year's War when the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus got involved in the war and German territory was seized by the Swedes along the Baltic coast in Pomerania. Sweden lost the territory in Pomerania also in the 19th century during the Napoleonic Wars upon their siding with Napoleon, and wound up being on the losing side of the fence in that conflict.
As an American, this history is so alien yet fascinating.
A good presentation of a complex period spoiled by the omission of the years in the latter period...
It's not that Prussia took over terretories in the HRE, but after the 30 years war the elector of Brandenburg, Friedrich Willhelm, later called the great, gained Prussia by treaties with Poland. His son wanted to have King title, but was not allowed due to HRE rules, so called himself King IN (not of) Prussia. F-W. also launched the reforms (immigration of French calvinists, education for all, military) that lead to the rise of Prussia almost 100 years later. Brandenburg-Prussia was born out of the ashes and devastation of the 30 years war. The other important period was the napoleonic wars. Prussia had a very weak king, got crushingly defeated by Napoleon, so Queen Luise and reformer von Stein, reshaped Prussia once again to a industrial power it would be under Bismarck during the 2nd schleswig war.
Pennsylvania was heavily settled by Germans. So much so that a town about 10 miles outside of Philadelphia is named King of Prussia. One of the largest shopping malls in the United States is located in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Ah. Every single history lesson I have been learning for years.
I love the History of that time just as the Video. Thank you very much for it!
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And now there are millions of Turks in the country
" The love between Turks and Germans is so old that it will never break." - Otto von Bismarck, August 1871.
@@thorstenguenther yea but not Turks disrupting the German populous
I always love watching thr history videos relaed to New Turkiye ❤
Btw, that is one of my favorite blank physical maps of Europe
Interesting insight on Bismarck and his strategy
I would have started the story of germany with East Frankia and the death of Charlemagne. For having an even big picture of how Germany came to be.
@@Exoneos Actually, I would start German history from the moment they first made their appearance on the world stage, namely, when they came in contact with the Romans during the 2nd century B.C., and went to war with the tribes that the Romans called the Cimbri and Teutones. From that point onward, there was constant warfare between the two until the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D. The Germans would go on to create their own civilization thereafter, its most prominent early manifestation being the empire of Charlemagne. Incidentally, the Germans were among the few groups who were able to defeat the Romans, and hold them at bay, the others being the Caledonians and the Parthians as the major antagonists.
East Frankia has little to do with any early modern German state though
Have you seen Switzerland? Chust chilling in the center of all our wars 😂
Thanks!
Thank you too!!
Finally a sane soul whose just happy to watch instead of immature professor of language correction maniacs who likes to find small mistakes on everything
Can you please explain how the colour yellow was added to the German flag. Abd also what the three colours symbolise. Thank you.
Yellow was already the main colour of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Just check Wiki and you will see how the flag evolved since around AD900
You said the treaty was ratified in Frankfurt, but you showed it in Berlin.
Can you please make a documentary on Sicily? Thanks.
its hard to tell the time frame of all this
6:54... Russia and Denmark, huh? :P
yes Russia and Denmark have been great allies several times in history I think it was only due to Denmark fighting with Sweden to keep Finland out of the hands of Russia once there was a conflict, until the communist killed the Czar, as the mother of the Czar was Danish that created another conflict and the whole cold war thing, today however Denmark like other European nations is just vassal of the USA that means conflict with Russia and whomever the USA decide is the enemy of the day China, Iran, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba ect.
I heard that as well. The same common butchery of German like he keep doing with 'SchlEswig'. I guess the majority will never learn to pronounce non-English properly.
Love to see that video in 300 years later from now.... Just to remind y`all things are never settled to eternity.
Music makes it so hard to listen and focus
Now I need a video of the out-migration of these duchies to the US during this period.
I like your format. Good video!
Nice vid. And also hello knowledgia! Ive been watching your videos since 2018! I only commented now because i was shy
Let's go another banger sending love from Chi-Town Chicago Illinois love you my brother always looking forward to every video you post you are the G.O.A.T.
Why the hoi 4 sound when france declared war😂
And after these states were united, nothing bad ever came of it.
nice video
A very decent historical account. However, when giving DATES, the YEAR was left out many times often for several minutes of the video, covering several significant events. At least post the YEAR on the map, or remember to say the YEAR much more often.
Awesome video! Love it!!!!
Fascinating military history, thank you 📚😊
Why Austria didn’t join Germany?
It is because the Allies didn't allow the unification of Germany and Austria
Austria also had plans to unite with Hungary, which was equally powerful as Austria
@hollywoodnoire On November 11, 1918, the Provisional National Assembly declared the German-Austrian Republic and passed the law on the form of state and government of German-Austria. They described the new state as a "democratic republic" (Article 1), which, according to Article 2, was to be "part of the German Republic". On September 10, 1919, in the Treaty of Saint-Germain, Austria had to agree to the state name Republic of Austria demanded by the victorious powers of the First World War instead of the self-chosen state name German-Austria and to full sovereignty vis-à-vis the German Republic, otherwise no treaty would have been concluded.
The originally self-chosen state name and the intention to be part of the German Republic were thus banned, and only lasted for about a year, because the changes demanded by the victorious powers were passed by law on October 21, 1919.
so from a Mess to a BIGGER MESS. got it.
Hi Knowledgia
I love your Videos they are so professionelly made ❤
In 1920 the northern part of Schleswig became a part of Denmark (again) after a referendum.
13:05 By German inheritance law, Maria Theresa was the last Habsburg and it was the Lorraines who ruled Austria after her ascension to the Austrian throne. The powerful German states were just bribed by her father to recognize that the rules didn't apply to the Austrian monarchy and she got to inherit all royal titles, despite it not being legal for another German state to do so (as far as I'm aware). Maybe you were trying to simplify it by not calling them the Habsburg-Lorraines. It's like calling the Russian tzars Romanov when Schleswig-Holstein-Gotorp, branch of Oldenburgs, came into power.
Also like how there is no House of Windsor, it was renamed during WWI because of anti-German sentiment when at the time the UK royal family were of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha lineage. King Charles III of the house of Windsor is really King Charles III from the house of [Schleswig-Holstein-Gotorp-]Glücksburg, which is also a branch of the Oldenburgs. The Oldenburgs were like Habsburgs, but low key and less inbreeding.
Most people in Europe have a claim to some crown if they got to decide what ancestors they get to inherit titles from. I'm excluding most areas that were once a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth where after a while, everybody was basically nobility because all children inherited their father's titles, not just primogeniture. If one duke had 5 sons, and all of his sons had 5 sons (all living to adulthood) that would mean in the span of 3 generations, 30 more dukes were created.*
*I could be wrong, it's been a while since I've studied the PLC.
You are fully right with Maria Theresa, she is last Habsburg and she also was only Archduchess of Austria and her husband was proclaimed Emperor of HRE. Then her son Joseph II was Emperor and kind of co-archduke (there was a pause as her husband Francis von Lothringen ruled after Charles von Wittelsbach - her sister husband. But I might be wrong as I feel awfull with names haha).
Maria Theresa and Joseph II are very important to PLC history, so I like to learn about both of them.
Nobility in PLC was quite unique as it was also 10% of society and wasm't only the wealthiest as some nobles were as poor as a peasant. Also it is hard to call them dukes or barons, or even lords. They owned land, but most often they bought it, got it from rulers, inherited it. Funny thing is that one of PLC kings Stanisław Leszczyński inherited a title after Francis von Lothringen and become a duke of Lotharingia. But I might be not right as for example nobles in Grand Duchy of Lithuania sometimes were known as dukes (some of Radziwiłłs come to my mind). But most nobles were known as wojewoda (voivod or provincial governorns) and they recieved other titles like hetman or chancelor (Chancelor of Grand Duchy of Lithuania).
@ozyrysozi6186 I wonder if the Wittelsbachs regret not trading Bavaria for Austrian Belgium? They might still be a monarchy.
I don't think the French get enough blame for WWI. Alsace and northern Lotharingen were mostly German when the GE took the area in 1871. They were looking for a way to get the area back. France wasn't punished at all for the Napoleonic. They sure demanded revenge when they were on the winning side.
@@NorthernXY I mean, even after German Unification there were still kings and dukes under the Kaiser. But yeah, maybe.
As for how they treated France after Napoleon I - I mean, it was a smart move in my opinion. France was still the number one military in Europe and was also one of a great powers - punishing them when they claim they fought with tyrant and usurper would be awful. It is also worth remembering that last 100 days of Napoleon were a bit different - Coalition declared war, but on Napoleon, not France as it was already a monarchy under Louis XVIII Burbon. But Metternich worked hard to cut France, British also wanted it away from Low Countries, Italy and German Confederation. Punishing them would again destabilise Europe and destroy Balance of Powers that Congress of Vienna was fighting for - unification of Germany and Italy will destroy the balance as Austria will also fall far from it's grace.
But yes, Alsace and part of Lorrain was very German, but also - was important region for industrialization. It was part of HRE for a long time and partly lost to France only by Thirty Years War, yet region still remaind pretty germanised.
And as for WWI - there are many sides to blame and it involves UK and France also, they weren't saints either, so I agree with that.
@ozyrysozi6186 With the Wittelsbachs re-owning parts of the Lowlands, Belgium, after the Napoleonic Wars. They would have had less reason to join the GE and remain constitutional kings like today. Probably would retain their title after WWI unlike the GE and AHE.
I'm aware of how it turned into Europe vs the not French Frenchman and not the French people/France. French revanche is what got them into WWI (Alsace-Lorraine) by including themselves in Russian "protectorship" of Slavs and the Orthodox church. So when the AHE declared war on Serbia (I need to read a lot more about all this), the Russian Empire joined on the side of Serbia and GE on the AHE. France is allied with Russia to check central powers. Joins war for non-expansionist "reasons". Making an Eastern European/Balkan War (Bismarck totally called it) a Great War.
After the War, France demands Alsace-Lorraine (with GE having land taken away and AHE disappearing) and occupies German Rhine land to extract the revenue as payback. Establishing the ultimate international rule "It's only okay when we do."
My family started (though my father) doing a family history. It was pretty easy until we got to the German part, then it became a bit more difficult, but we have gotten back Into the 1700s to 1600s. It is extremely interesting. The family immigrated from Germany to Ireland, just after the "Potato Famine" (1860s) then onto Pennsylvania, where my great grandfather family moved to.
This history helps me understand what was going on during part of their history and why they may have left Germany in the first place.
They eventually realized there were three things that united them: sausages, sauerkraut and an unhealthy hatred for the French.
Kartoffeln🥔 too
US people like to eat Sauerkraut today for health reasons but they dont know how. Kind of funny. ☺️🤭
You think perhaps the German hatred of the French was justified because over the previous 400 years France had invaded German territory 40 times???
Beautifil isnt it? Like a map from fromsoft ❤
If you like the 1871 map of Germany do I have a surprise for you guys and girls in the 1942 version, 😂😅😊
So I guess you can say the negotiations were short
This story explains why Bismarck is awesome
If starting a war against a member of your own federation can be called awesome, and doing this so impudently that you plan a two-front war and lure a neighboring state by promising it territorial gains at the expense of the member of your own federation. In essence, the Prussian military aggression led to all the disasters in the decades that followed.
"How wqs germany unified?"
-By Bismark having a plan
Bornholm not being danish annoys me
Strangely enough I feel sorry for my brother nation Denmark to loose Schleswig if nothing else it would look more neat with a border placed further south on the map 😄
I am a fan of Europe and Germany and history
Aren't you European ?
I’ve been waiting for a video like this about Germany! Thank you
Wow you're actually right...well done usually there's some historical error but you nailed this one 👏💡 I liked this video Knowledgegia yes!!!!👍😅
Prussia:existing
Russia: get yo own damn name
The similarity in the names "Prussia" and "Russia" is largely coincidental and not indicative of any direct historical or linguistic connection between the two.
1. Prussia: The name "Prussia" (in German, "Preußen") is derived from the Old Prussians, a Baltic tribe that inhabited the region before it was conquered by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th century.
2. Russia: The name "Russia" comes from the medieval state of Kievan Rus, a federation of Slavic and Finno-Ugric peoples under the rule of the Varangians (Vikings). The name "Rus" likely has Scandinavian roots, related to the Old Norse word "rods," meaning "men who row."
Despite the phonetic resemblance, the names evolved independently from different linguistic and cultural origins.
the German kingdom of Prussia began to exist as a distinct political entity in 1525. It was established when the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach, secularized the Order's Prussian territories and converted to Lutheranism, becoming the Duke of Prussia under the suzerainty of the Polish crown. This marked the beginning of the Duchy of Prussia. In 1701, it was elevated to a kingdom, with the coronation of Frederick I, thus becoming the Kingdom of Prussia.
while Muscovy, originally a medieval principality centered around Moscow, began to transition into what is now Russia during the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The Grand Duchy of Moscow, under Ivan III (Ivan the Great), started to consolidate power and expand its territory, laying the groundwork for a unified Russian state. The term "Russia" began to be used more widely in the early 16th century, particularly during the reign of Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible), who was officially crowned as the first Tsar of Russia in 1547.
so Prussia is older than russia
@@jakekn7304 yeah, but it's like if there was a place called the punited states of America.
@@russell2910 since Prussia came first it would me more accurate to joke how a place would be called the
"nited stars of America"
@@jakekn7304 by making a joke about words, if is not accepted to change words so they start with the letter n, because of the implication.
Bro I learn more history form CZcams than I do from school
Excellent tutorial of the making of the German Republic!..Salute!
"Bismark was a herring!" - Lili Von Shtupp
The German flag in black, red, gold is wrong in the video above. The German Confederation, which existed from 1815 to 1866, had a black double-headed eagle on a yellow background as its coat of arms.
A very good topic bec medival times germany is a multi types of states then it becomes the german empire
Bismark should have taken Austria once defeated as part of the new federation
House of History has some excellent videos on all the major battles.
@Knowledgia could you create a video about How was Italy Formed?
Pre-unified Germany, or whatever it would be better to call it, has been on my reading list for so long, and has been leapfrogged by so many other topics, that I am glad that I had the chance to take this very well put together 40 minutes to listen to your video while enjoying a hot bath (so little time to dedicate to just one thing).
Wanting to know more, perhaps it will be only a short time until I get round to learning about this "properly".
With thanks.
The fact that that one city of France called bitsch💀
“Finally, no more border gore.”
-Otto von Bismarck, 1871
Please sort out your pronunciation of Schleswig. Irritating, it’s an e there not an ie, closer to z than s.🙈
Awesome video!!! Taught me how far reaching the Prussian Armies were. It also somewhat predicts French restoration payments and land claims.
The Germans should have handed the bill to France for the 40 invasions over the previous 400 years.
French love to piss and moan and never admit the misery and mayhem they invoked in German lands for 400 years.
My family left germany in the 1760s for America
Interesting thing about Prussia, Otto Von Bismarck put the German States to be united under Prussia, Germany becoming united and powerful
Bismark was a Slav
Considering England and France formed in the medieval period, it's odd that Germany didn't arise until the 19th century. Obviously, the various German states and duchies were similar linguistically and culturally. Norway, Sweden, and Denmark formed in the medieval period also.
@@Trecesolotienesdos That is one of the peculiarities of European history in that the Germans were the last group to create a unified nation state. You would think that being in the center of the continent where they have had enemies on all sides of their borders that they would have founded a single political entity amongst themselves to counter that. The fact that the Germans were fractured into all of those diminutive states during all of that time, and not completely taken over by outsiders is a miracle in and of itself when you think of it.
And you would think that German unification would've occurred during the Middle Ages like the other European states considering their vulnerability at being in the middle of the continent with hostile neighbors on all sides.
Well Germans were already unified in the Holy Roman Empire. Which was sometimes referred to as “of the German Nation” so a united German state did exist in the medieval and post medieval period
@@sebe2255 The Holy Roman Emperor was a nominal figure who wielded little power over the German states. Unlike the early United States which was a loose federation with the states exercising autonomy, the various German states had actual independence with each having their own government, army, currency and each conducting their own foreign policy. If any disputes arose between any of the monarchs and governments of the various states, the Holy Roman Emperor could be asked upon to act as an arbiter to mediate those disputes in that event. Unification came in 1871 upon France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, and Prussia acting as the unifier over all of the German states with the King of Prussia being proclaimed as the German emperor and chief of state and the chancellor as the head of government. The various German states were given autonomy which made Germany a federal monarchy.
@@douglasschliewen4302 This decentralisation applies to all feudal medieval states though. The early HRE is no different from France or England in that sense. The development of decentralisation with de facto independence only takes place in the later third of its history. And regardless it was still a single “German” political entity which was identified as such. And it isn’t like the Emperor had no authority or competences
Political unification in one nation states happens in 1871 (or at least three if you count Switzerland and Austria). But there had been an explicitly German state foe centuries
So it isn’t like the concept of Germany or German is as new as people pretend